An Ebola outbreak in a southwestern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is escalating quickly, as some health responders say they have less than a tenth of the funding needed to contain the deadly disease.
As of this week, there have been at least 57 cases and 35 deaths—a 61 percent fatality rate, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
That ebola outbreak worried them enough that Obama created a task force to create a rapid response plan for the event of a major pandemic on US soil. We were lucky Obama was in office and surged aid. Now we fucked USAID and left the WHO under Trump.
Trump basically threw that plan in the trash when covid came.
Studies would later show Trump’s incompetence was responsible for 40% of the deaths. Meaning they were preventable.